NANTOU
NANTOU
DISTILLERY: Nantou, Taiwan
ABV: 52%
AGE: 5 Years
CAT: Single Malt
BATCH: #2
RRP: £84.95 inc VAT
AVAILABLE NOW!
ABOUT THIS BOTTLING
We’re delighted to bring you this second release, a 5 Year Old, and a cracking example of their peated malt style.
From a single cask, distilled in 2016, just 231 bottles have been filled at natural cask strength
The Nantou Distillery is a Government owned business (Taiwan Tobacco & Liquor Corporation). While the Nantou distillery is slightly older than the more well known Kavalan distillery, whisky production didn’t start until 2008.
Production techniques are modelled after those utilised in Scotland in the 80s. Malted barley is imported from Scotland and ex-sherry and ex-bourbon casks are used for the maturation.
NOSE
Sweet vanilla, apricot and ripe apple, alongside chalky grist, salty seaspray, and some sooty peat smoke. You could be forgiven for thinking this was coastal Islay
TASTE
Mouth-coating, oily malt leads the way for a hefty hit of spice. Smouldering embers and earthy ash are lifted by a touch of seaweed and lemon zest. A long ashy finish.
It’s a cracker!
ABOUT THE LABEL
Our label is how we imagined the first explorers finding this site in the idyllic Nantou region of Taiwan
Our intrepid explorer is armed with a bindle of barley and his guide to whisky as he makes his way to a pier on the Sun Moon lake.
Native flora and fauna surround him; Plum blossom trees, banana plants, fruit trees, Blue Magpies, and watch out for that Taiwanese Leopard Cat.
